I run a T2300 with a Zalman 3100 in an Asus N4L board in an Antec 3300, one fan front, one fan back, the back fan is the Antec default, the front is... hm, either Silentblade or Antec. It's usually on 24/7 and have no problems. The heatsink clip comes from the original fan as it's rather proprietary...

A Core 2 Duo and LCD monitor ... and 1000VA? Holy Batman, how long do you want to run from battery? (even including future)

you know this is quite important -- i built a pretty good rig with a core duo and all and damned Fujitsu 2.5" SATA 100G disks are clicking with an abandon. I am sleeping some four meters from the computer in another room(!) but the clicking is still audible. Come on!

So, what's the hdparm command?

Another 7600GS card is http://www.xfxforce.com/web/product/lis ... nId=648244 this one also has dual DVI and TV-out and even dual link DVI. Looks similar to the Asus 256MB in the Anandtech roundup just with better connection.

How do you cover the PSU hole once the PicoPSU is installed and the regular one is removed?

I have a T2300 in this board and the cooler is the venerable Zalman 3100. I have front and back fans in an Antec 3300 but no actual CPU fan. I just checked uptime, up 11 days and it was software that caused me to reboot not CPU heat. You need the clip from the original cooler and trim it a little to...

At Mini-box.com I saw PicoPSU-120-WI-25V with a 12-25V input and PicoPSU-120-WI-32V with a 12V-32V input. I checked the WI-25V manual and it says 6A over 12V which is more than enough for a mobile on the desktop. And you no longer need to hunt for arcane high ampere 12V bricks, any run of the mill l...

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/4656/machineyx6.th.jpg The only card currently inside is the ADD2 DVI riser. A second Ethernet card is likely to be added in the near future. http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/6168/heatsinklt0.th.jpg A Zalman 3100 with the the clip from the original Asus cooler. ...

Mobile Semprons are indeed a very good choice for a machine like this. There is very little work for the CPU here. Even if you get a board which does not officially support the mobile Sempron you can still be happy, if the BIOS is 'overclocker friendly' in our case 'underclocker friendly' :) You can...

Aha, interesting. About i945GTm-VHL: it's a bit expensive (such is life of course) but can I be sure it supports dual-head? I couldn't find dual-head mentioned anywhere for this motherboard. Specifications tab says: DVI Connector x 1, VGA Port x 1 GamePC has a review, http://www.gamepc.com/images/l...

Just for sake of correctness: this connector is not Dell proprietary, it's used widely on Nvidia Quadro dual (low profile) and quad monitor cards, some ATI FireMV, lots of Matrox...

OK, this idea is not that good then. But, given that the connector itself is not symmetric:



how can you plug this in the wrong direction? Or not all DMS-59 connectors leave this one pin out?[/img]

Grab a 25W TDP S754 Mobile Sempron off eBay, 30-35 bucks. That leaves more than enough dough to buy an AOpen vK8T800a-LF (Google shows me that even with shipping it's less than 60 bucks) which officially supports this chip and has a Via chipset which is way cooler than the nforce and it's also an OK...

I happen to be in Hungary and most "interesting" stuff arrives from Germany, either ebay.de or pc-cooling.de and I checked the latter ships to Greece too. To give you an idea, they already have Rev.B. of the Scythe Ninja Plus.

simbloke wrote:CPU: 1.35v to 2.0v

this sucks. I would have expected to be able to use 0.8V at worst 1V. If not, then this motherboard is useless for me

Does it allow you to undervolt/underclock?

How often do you plug in your monitor?? I am running such a Dell card in a vanilla machine and have absolutely no problems. Also, spending about three seconds staring at the connector helps you. It is a trapezoid not a rectangle. Anyways. I want so bad a motherboard with dual DVI but there is no suc...

This so baffles me. They are putting a DVI and a VGA connector on the motherboard when connector real estate is at a premium and one DMS-59 connector could serve two DVI or two VGA with a breakout cable. Anyone knows?

First of all, I can not understand why a low profile card does not use the DMS-59 connector which can be splitted into dual VGA or dual DVI. There are -- as far as I know -- four low profile Nvidia cards that use this connector: the PNY Quadro 280/285 (AGP/PCI-E), they are on Geforce4 MX level (many...

I don't think the Zalman 7000 will work very well with the fan removed. Get a Ninja for complete peace of mind. A Mobile Sempron in such an undervolted eats about 15W max. Probably even less. There will be two 120mm fans around -- one in the Seasonic S12 and one as the system exhaust. I do not thin...

Well, MSI even lets you to search on Turion support: http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/mainboard/mbd/pro_mbd_cpu_support.php?type=159 This mp3car thread also mentions K8NGM-V, the MSI RS482M-IL and the Gigabyte GA-K8N51GMF as working with Turions. On another note, a CPU shim is available from M...

And where can I buy such a controller?

Tibors wrote:I would think a Solo with a Seasonic S-12 380 PSU

why the 380? the 330 is more than adequate, isn't it? Is that a more quiet model somehow?

With the internal onboard VGA and the external add-on PCI Express VGA card, you can easily enjoy the benefits of Multi Monitor feature. This is the sentence in the manual that makes me think that external and interal are supported at the same time. http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/articles/show/70...

This is the most off-topic thread I ever saw. Let's see Turion supporting motherboards: The AOpen VK8T800a-LF is the board that AMD suggests for Mobile CPUs supports Mobile Sempron and Turion alike. I tested the board with a Mobile Sempron and Linux and powernow-k8 loaded -- this is the maximum supp...

dual VGA/DVI, passive, low profile, cheap: For AGP, you want Dell G0170 which is built around an FX5200. For PCI-E, you want EVGA 064-TC-2N24-SX which is built around 6200. The former is available only through eBay, the latter can be found by Googling for it. You can also find NVS Quadro 280/285 whi...

I am pretty sure that this board can support an external video card and internal at the same time. This can be deduced from the manual (it mentions multiple monitor setup w/ the interal video) and from Googling too. Yes, the monitor is not of the wide variety, it's 1600x1200 so it's quite OK. Yes, I...

I need lots of pixels, not much 3D and silence. Let's see: Antec Sonata II 110CAD ASRock K8NF4G 81CAD Mobile Sempron 3000+ undervolted and underclocked (I already own this one, 1.15V and 1500MHz is good) Zalman 7000 AlCu with fan removed 35CAD 2x1 Gbyte RAM 230CAD WD SE16 320 Gbyte 120CAD Silenx Lux...

For some of you, it's quite clear what's up with picoPSU and 12V but for me, it was not clear, so I exchanged a few emails with Andrei Bulucea in January. The 12V is not touched at all by picoPSU and "with AC adaters (220->12V) that is not a problem, because they regulate input withing 5%, which is ...